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March 17th, 2005Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Challenges forStandards Development in
e-Learning & Knowledge Management
Jon Masoneducation.au limited
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Overview
• Context and Questions
– Standards for What?– What is the Problem Space?– How do we model it?
• The Challenge of Collaboration
• Issues
• Looking Forward – What Needs to Happen
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Key Context
• e-learning not just a passing fad– transforming access & delivery of education
and training … & its traditional resource base– spans home, workplace, and institution
• Convergence of e-infrastructure– e-learning– knowledge management– performance support– and more … [keyword = services]
• First generation standards are stable• But standards are still developing• Growing number & range of players
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Venues for Learning
• Individual– home, workplace, leisure, … socially
• Community of Practice– Co-located– Geographically distributed, networked, virtual– As narrative & discourse
• Organization– Physical environment– Abstract environment
» Strategic» Operational
– Virtually, in cyberspace
Lifelong learning for All!
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Key Visions
“Provide access to the highest quality education and training, tailored to individual needs, delivered cost-effectively, anywhere and at any time.”
“(LTSC) is chartered … to develop accredited technical standards, recommended practices, and guides for learning technology.”
“Convenient, effective, affordable, and profitable learning available to every learner and teacher worldwide.”
“the pre-eminent international forum for standards development in information technology for learning, education, and training.SC36
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Key Visions
“The Global Knowledge Economics Council (GKEC) is an organization formed to discuss and select macro-, meso-, micro-, and firm-level plans, policies, and metrics to measure and increase efficiency of knowledge markets and the quality of knowledge at all levels.”
www.agimo.gov.au/practice/delivery/checklists/knowledge
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“Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.”
Plato
Key Visions
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“An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.”
H.G. Wells, The Brain: Organization of the Modern World, 1940.
Key Visions
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Source: SCORM 2004 Overview
Historical Perspective
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e = engagement
e-learninge-governmente-procuremente-businesse-commercee-servicese-Europee-agenda
e-contente-maile-traininge-knowledgee-bankinge-portfoliose-votinge-governance e-skills…
Time to redefine a CeO?
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eDay2 -1 February 2005 - all Danish citizens now have a legal right to communicate electronically with central government bodies
1 February 2005 - French Ministry of the Interior launched an online debate over the proposed national electronic ID card
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Key Question
What standards are needed in order to build a sustainable and supportive infrastructure for learning, education, and training?
Technical (ICT) infrastructure
Organizational infrastructure
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… Related Question
Who will (or should) develop them?
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Who
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Who Else?
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What Standards?
Three broad kinds:
• Standards specifically purposed to support learning, education, and training (&/or KM)
• Standards not specifically purposed to support learning, education, and training but are still essential in enabling it (&/or KM)
• More widely deployed standards that may be useful for learning, education, and training (&/or KM)
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Dualities
Boundaries
• Packets• Components• Content• Containers• Collections• Repositories• LMS/MLE• (Intranets)
Networks
• Connections• Relationships• Systems
Open ClosedDefined Porous
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Dualities … Polarities
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Innovations
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• What is content?– new data-types & object-types constantly appearing
• Movable boundaries– Content, context, & learning activities– Objects, collections, repositories, … & federations – Data, information, & knowledge
• Modeling knowledge & learning– Complex Adaptive Systems
Conceptual Challenges
Content is in the eye of the beholder
Learning Technology & Knowledge Systems must evolve into supporting complex processes
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Modelling knowledge
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24Source: www.jaist.ac.jp/~kouhou/General_info/organization-e/TISHIKI-e.html#kiso
JAIST – Dept of Knowledge System Science
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Recursive Cycles
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Communities of practice
Organizations
Individuals
context
Sense-making
Application
Meaning
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Source: M. D. Lytras & M. A. Sicilia (2005). The Knowledge Society – A Manifesto for Knowledge and Learning, Int. J. Knowledge and Learning, Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2, 2005. page 3 http://www.inderscience.com/storage/f410121258637119.pdf
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Know
Where
Who
Why
What
If When
How
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Data: a collection of unorganised facts and/or figures
Information: data that has been organised in such a way that it achieves meaning, in a generalised way
Knowledge: information that is presented within a particular context, yielding insight/understanding on application in that context
A Fundamental (recursive) Value-Chain
Know-What
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Data: a collection of unorganised facts and/or figures
Information: data that has been organised in such a way that it achieves meaning, in a generalised way
Knowledge: information that is presented within a particular context, yielding insight/understanding on application in that context
Intelligence: mental attribute signifying capacity for understanding, developing & processing knowledge
Wisdom: the reflective or realised insight resulting from successful application and/or synthesis of knowledge
Know-What
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Source: www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/dkescop/dwcurve.shtml
Daniel Goleman – Emotional Intelligence
Howard Gardner – Multiple Intelligences
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– Artificial Intelligence
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• Personal KM (individual dispositions and behaviours)
• Organisational KM (multi-national corporations, small-to-medium enterprises, Governments, Non-Government Organizations, Educational Institutes)
• Sectoral KM (education, information technology, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, etc.)
• Cultural KM (indigenous, community-of-practice, …)
• National KM (national policies for stimulating innovative cultures within industry)
Definitions – Five Perspectives
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Nouns- learning, knowledge, management
Verbs- learn, know, manage, innovate … (learning, knowing, …)
Knowledge- is both a thing and a flow- e-learning & KM systems are dynamic systems- like particle & wave theories in Physics- (typically) cumulative, adaptive
Definitions
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Three Heuristics
Knowledge is volunteered, not conscripted- shared knowledge is more powerful than pooled information. Trust is key
We will always know more than we can tell, and tell more than we can write down
- writing is reflective knowledge
We only know what we know when we need to know it.
- knowledge is always contextual
Definitions - Dave Snowden, IBM
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Seven Levels of Knowledge Management
Infrastructure – physical & technical support structures
Content – intellectual capital (knowledge representation)
Processes – expressing knowledge development
Organization – creating structures to support KM (recognizing communities of practice)
Relationships – establishing & maintaining
Products & Services
Strategy – with knowledge recognized as the key resource
Definitions - Rudy Ruggles, Dan Holtshouse – The Knowledge Advantage
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Knowledge Management …
“is a multi-disciplined approach to achieving organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge. KM focuses on processes such as acquiring, creating and sharing knowledge and the cultural and technical foundations that support them. The aim is to align knowledge processes with organizationalobjectives.”
Definitions - Standards Australia
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Knowledge Management
… “is a set of practices and processes for systematically adding value to intellectual and knowledge based resources … Like finance, land, capital equipment and people, knowledge has become a critical resource for businesses, community organisations and government.”
Definitions - Standards Australia (2)
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What is a Standard?
“A Standard is a published document which sets out specifications and procedures designed to ensure that a material, product, method or service is fit for its purpose and consistently performs the way it was intended to.”
Standards Australia
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Standards are Created
• Depend upon agreement & collaboration (ideally consensus)
• A natural artifact of any human society
• Communities of practice develop standards (& conventions, protocols, fashions, etc)
• Signal marketplace maturity of an industry
• All successful industries depend on standards
• Help create ‘trust’ infrastructure
But!
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Standards are Misunderstood
as
• A means for corporate dominance in a market
• A means for government regulatory control
• Limiting personal freedom of expression
• Limiting frontier thinking & innovation
and, there’s wide usage of the term!
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Standards …
• Utilize and define boundaries
• Enable networks
• Facilitate development of systems
• Stimulate & capitalize on innovation
• Promote interoperability
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A metaphor?
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Content = Wine
Container = Bottle
Metadata = Label
…but all made of different stuff!
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What is a Technology Standard?
An interface and/or a software protocolbetween two or more systems or components that provides connectivity and interoperability
examples:• Hardware (USB port; power plug; video tape)• Data interchange (XML; PDF)• ‘Middleware’ (LDAP; Shibboleth; ODBC)
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What is a Learning Technology Standard?
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Standards
e-learning
Standards harnessed through
innovation in e-learning
Purpose-built e-learning standards
What Standards?
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How to Model the Problem Space?
• Identifying Key Concepts
• Processes & Functions
• User Requirements & Use Cases!
• Components
• Services
• Frameworks
• What Technology can Do Now
• What we want Technology to Do
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ELF – The E-Learning Framework (JISC-DEST++)
http://www.elframework.org/
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Open Knowledge Networks
Closed Knowledge Networks
Disruptive Innovation
Sustaining Innovation
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Other Tensions
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ProcessContent
PedagogyTechnology
NetworksBoundaries
Formal InformalCommunities of Practice
DiscontinuitiesContinuities
OpenProprietary
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Systems Boundaries
For example:
Digital rights management brings new complexity & can imply management of:
– Identity (people & resources)– Access– Content (end-to-end, creator-to-consumer)– Distribution & tracking– Enabling & constraining technologies– ‘Trusted Computing’
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Some Success Stories
• SCORM www.adlnet.org/
• IMS Global Learning Consortiumwww.imsglobal.org/
• CEN/ISSS/LTWSwww.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/activity/wslt.asp
• Medbiquitouswww.medbiq.org/
• The Learning Federationwww.thelearningfederation.edu.au/
• Triowww.progettotrio.it/
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Modeling repositories
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What is Interoperability?
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Interoperability Dimensions
Political Agreeing to common goals & ground rules for achieving mutual benefit
Jurisdictional Mapping legal, regional interests
Semantic Achieving common understanding, common meanings (eg Dublin Core)
Cultural Communities of Practice, workflow
Syntactic Sharing grammars, templates, …
Technical Systems exchanging data & services
Adapted from: Paul Miller, (2000) – Interoperability: What is it and Why should I want it?
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/
58Dave Snowden, (2004) Presentation at DSTC Evolve Conference, Brisbane http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/presentations/conf/snowden_evolve04.pdf
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The Challenge of Collaboration
• Everyone wants the benefits of interoperability and consolidation but …
• Everyone wants to meet specific legal, cultural, or business needs
System Framework
Open Standards
Local ProfilesLocal ProfilesLocal ProfilesLocal Profiles
Source: Ed Walker, CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium
Resolution: framework, standards, profiles
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“The story of the creation and development of the Internet is one of an extraordinary human adventure. It highlights people’s capacity totranscend institutional goals, overcome bureaucratic barriers, and subvert established values in the process of ushering in a new world. It also lends support to the view that cooperation and freedom of information may be more conducive to innovation than competition and proprietary rights.”
Manuel Castells
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• Two sides of one coin
• Organizing principles of knowledge economies
Collaboration & Trust
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Where Collaboration is Needed
Government
Industry Education& Training
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Collaborative Activities
Outputs
Consensus Building
Knowledge Sharing
Standards & Protocols
Technologies that Work
TRUST
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A Future Case-Study: e-portfolios
• What standards are needed?– Identity & Access management
– Portable, validated student records
– Competency classification & validation
– Multiple repository/device interfaces
– Content management
– … (User Control!)
• Who will be the trusted service providers?– Universities unlikely to be sufficient in long term
– IT vendors do not have a lot of “trust equity”
• “i18n” (internationalization)– Is it sufficient (e.g., IDN & phishing problem)?
Trust Infrastructure
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Ongoing Issues
• Internationalization (language & culture)
• Cost of effective Collaboration
• Engagement of key stakeholders
• Organizational / Domain “silos”• Trust
• Terminology
• Implementation trade-offs
• Building Infrastructure that scales
• Sustainability
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Ongoing Issues (2)
• Intellectual Property
• Open source
• …
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Questions …
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Thank You!
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